2 Chicago Coffee Shops Will Turn Into Luke's Diner For 'Gilmore Girls' Reunion

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Oct 3, 2016 7:35PM

Luke's Diner is leaving its fictional Stars Hollow enclave and heading to a coffee shop near you this October, as part of a promo for the much-anticipated Gilmore Girls reunion on Netflix.

In Chicago, "a coffee shop near you" specifically means the North Side: Lakeview's Osmium Coffee on West Belmont Avenue and Elaine's Coffee Call inside Hotel Lincoln. As die-hard fans of both Gilmore Girls and coffee shops will recognize, Osmium and Elaine's look exactly nothing like the homey diner in which Luke Danes scolded Lorelai Gilmore about her coffee-and-pancakes habit on the regular. So we'll be curious to see how promoters put in the New England touches.

Presumably besides standard American diner fare, visitors will be able to get free coffee from 7 a.m. to noon Oct. 5. And Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are also getting a bunch of Luke's Diners of their own.

As our sister site Gothamist reminds us, Luke was neither a very friendly person nor very friendly to babies, breast-feeding mothers, cell-phone users or patrons named Kirk. But we love him anyway, and we'll let Kirk have the last word on Luke's, the finest coffee in Stars Hollow: